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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Langley 5-Oct-39; 36BS/28BG Ladd Fd; with Chas Bockman force landed MacDill 9-Sep-41; transferred Geiger Fd, Wright Fd, with T.K. McGehee, crashed Nucla,CO near Lovelock, NV en route (8 Killed in Service), 9-Feb-42. Salvaged 26-Feb-42. This aircraft never served in combat and was never posted to the UK.
Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 14 January 2019 16:00:01 | Emily | Changes to serial number |
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Removed block number from serial number |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 24 January 2015 20:20:31 | Lee8thbuff | Changes to serial number |
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Lee Cunningham 24-Jan-2015, Appended Block Number to name. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 16 January 2015 22:29:18 | Lee8thbuff | Changes to production block number, manufacturer and description |
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Lee Cunningham 16-Jan-2015. Added block number and note to description based on " The B-17 Flying Fortress Story" Roger A. Freeman with David Osborne; converted dates to military-style signification. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:40:01 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log |
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